Carcinoma of the pancreas metastatic to the gingiva: Report of a case

Abstract

A 64-year-old man was reffered to the clinic with the chief complant of a tumorous lesion in the extracted cavity immediately after the extraction of the decayed 5. Prior to the tooth extraction the patient had a right upper lobectomy for lung cancer a month before.
The specimen from the gingiva indicated histologically large cell carcinoma the same as seen in the lung lesion. The patient died of heart failure 2 months later.
Autopsy findings revealed that the tumor at the tail portion of pancreas was the primary one, which metastasized to the lung and the gingiva.